panwoodn.
/ˈpanwʊd/, U.S. /ˈpænˌwʊd/, Scottish English /ˈpanwud/ Chiefly Scottish. Now historical.
Small lumps of coal or dross originally and chiefly used as fuel for salt pans. Formerly also: †a measure of such coal or dross (obsolete).Almost never attested outside Scotland, but entered as an obsolete word in R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words (1894).
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society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > coal or types of coal > [noun] > small, refuse, impure, or coal-dust
slackc1440
smith coal1466
smithy coal1482
coal dusta1529
panwood1531
smith's coal1578
kirving1599
culm1603
coom1611
small coal1643
smit1670
smut1686
slag1695
duff1724
duff coal1724
small1780
gum1790
stinking coal1803
cobbles1811
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treble1901
coal smut1910
gumming1938
nutty slack1953
1531 in C. Innes Registrum de Dunfermelyn (1842) 363 Gif the..abbot..desyris ony pan wod of my lord of Sanctandrois coill [etc.].
1577 in G. Donaldson Reg. Secreti Sigilli Regum Scotorum (1966) VII. 134/1 Minutis carbonibus vulgo panwod.
c1654 in J. G. Fyfe Sc. Diaries & Mem. (1927) 125 I moste give them suffitiant pan woode.
1678 Acct.-bk. Fawside Coal & Salt Wks. in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue 36 at Pan-wod(e For a panwood to the coalheuers.
1727 in D. Hume Comm. Law. Scotl. (1797) I. v. 229 Debtors to the said Company in the produce of the said estate, on account either of rents, coal, salt or pan-wood.
1764 Caledonian Mercury 10 Mar. Panwood, or small coal, for burning lime, at 9s. per chalder.
1806 R. Forsyth Beauties Scotl. III. 511 The small coal used in [the salt-works] has,..from time immemorial, received the singular appellation of panwood;..which has suggested..a suspicion that wood was formerly used as fuel in these works.
1808 R. Bald Gen. View Coal Trade Scotl. 52 Great coals, chews, lime-coal, and pan-wood or dross.
1925 H. M. Cadell Rocks W. Lothian xxviii. 320 The small coal or dross used for firing the pans was originally known as panwood.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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